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The public debate about GDR history is still a memorable cultural battlefield. The institutionalized reappraisal of the SED dictatorship competes with the polyphonic family memory, the geriaune in the social networks and the myth production of historical political actors from left to right. The German cooperation world champions oscillate between self-confidence and self-doubt. In the fifth "Yearbook of German Unity, observers from Eastern and Western Europe, North America and Germany analyze the profit and prospects of the public debate with the SED dictatorship--Translation from publisher's website.